EFCC Arrests Timipre Sylva

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested former governor of Bayelsa state, Mr. Timipre Sylva. He was picked up at his No. 3, Niger Street, Maitama, Abuja home. According to a press release issued late Wednesday evening and signed by Wilson Uwujaren, the acting Head of Media & Publicity at the EFCC, operatives of the anti graft agency stormed the former governor's home at about 10.00 am, but were told that Sylva was not in town. The operatives reportedly insisted on conducting a search on the house having obtained a warrant from the court. During the search, the former governor was found hiding in a dingy corner at the upper chamber of the expansive mansion. Vital documents were also discovered in the course of the search. Sylva was immediately whisked away and is currently being interrogated in connection with fresh evidence linking him to a bouquet of fraudulent transactions which borders on money laundering, at the headquarters of the anti- graft agency. Part of the new evidence discovered by the operatives of EFCC include a number of eye-popping real estate acquisitions in the federal capital city. The former governor has been embroiled in legal tackles against the EFCC over the agency's confiscation of several landed properties allegedly belonging to him and some of his cronies which he wants the court to release for him, and his arrest on Wednesday was said to be sequel to his refusal to honour invitations by the anti graft agency. According to the EFCC, "rather than appear before the EFCC, the ex governor got his lawyers to inform the Commission that he was unable to appear because he was sick, and hospitalized in Lagos". The lawyer was said to have promised to appear with Sylva last Tuesday, 7th May, but failed to do so. The commission warned that it will not longer tolerate the antics of suspects who treat its invitation with levity.

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